Title Promoter Affiliations Abstract "eVTOLUTION : EVTOL MULTI-FIDELITY HYBRID DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION FOR LOW NOISE AND HIGH AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE" "Tim De Troyer" "German Aerospace Center, The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Delft University of Technology, European Commission, Engineering Technology" "This project supports the digital transformation of aircraft design by developing new multi-disciplinary and multi-fidelity simulation tools that will enable novel aircraft architectures with improved aerodynamics and reduced noise emissions. This project addresses more specifically the design issues of electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft developed for Urban Air Mobility, but the innovative design/optimization framework that are proposed in this project are equally applicable to other novel aircraft architectures, such as those based on Distributed Electric Propulsion, Boundary Layer Ingestion, or open rotors. One common issue for most novel aircraft concepts is indeed the complexity of the aerodynamic and acoustic interactions between the lift-thrust systems and the airframe. eVTOLUTION is designed as a low-to-mid-TRL enabler project meant to develop the knowledge, data, tools, and methods that are necessary to understand, model, and optimize aerodynamic and aeroacoustic installation effects. The main objective of the project is to implement and demonstrate a novel design and optimization framework, built upon three pillars" "sAfe Urban aiR mObility for euRopeAn citizens" "Ivana Semanjski" "Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design, SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE SAS, European Passengers' Federation, Thomson Csf (France), University of Pisa, ROBODRONE INDUSTRIES SRO, SEAL AERONAUTICA SL, University of Florence" "AURORA is a cross-disciplinary project aiming at linking aeronautical, smart mobility, intelligent systems, urban planning, and citizens’ engagement with industry, authorities and citizens perspectives to foster the adoption of urban air mobility.AURORA primary focuses on emergency-related applications, such as medical emergency services and/or critical mobility infrastructure-related services, where urban air mobility can extend and complement current mobility systems. We believe that applications, where urban air mobility brings added value on top of the existing solutions, have a clear value proposition for the end-user and represent a fruitful path for early urban air mobility services acceptance. However, to get there technological, regulatory, economic, environmental and social challenges still need to be addressed and related gaps bridged. AURORA focuses on bridging these gaps and facilitating the integration of urban air mobility in a safe, secure, quiet and green manner. In more depth, AURORA research and innovation activities aim at implementing the enablers of intelligent urban air mobility for a multitude of safety-critical applications in the urban environment. One of the key enablers ofthe urban air mobility is an intelligent and autonomous self-piloted or UAV capable of autonomous trajectory generation while detecting and avoiding obstacles (both aerial and ground objects) in normal and abnormal conditions. AURORA will focus on the development of intelligent and fail-safe guidance-navigation-control features of the unmanned aerial system and augmented manned platform operating in an urban environment. This includes, among others, an autonomous and continuous selection of emergency landing sites and automated landing in case of fatal malfunctioning of the unmanned aerial vehicle itself. The use-cases include decision making support to emergency services and insertion and extraction of life support items or victims/first responders at the location of the incident." "Land-Based Solutions for Plastics in the Sea" "Erik Toorman" "Hydraulics and Geotechnics" "There are 5,250 billion plastic particles floating on the surface on the world's seas and oceans, equivalent to 268,940 metric tons of waste. These fragments move with the currents before washing up on beaches, islands, coral atolls or one of the five great ocean gyres. Because MP cannot be removed form oceans, proactive action regarding research on plastic alternatives and strategies to prevent plastic entering the environment should be taken promptly. Despite the research increasing, there is still a lack of suitable and validated analytical methods for detection and quantification of small micro- and nano plastics (SMNP) evidencing a huge obstacle for large-scale monitoring. There is also a lack of hazard and fate data which would allow their risk assessment.LABPLAS is a 48-months project whose vision is creating capacities (sampling, analysis and quantification techniques, new materials and new models) to evaluate rapidly and precisely the interactions of plastics with the environmental compartments and natural cycles leading to the development of effective mitigation and elimination measures, as well as, making management decisions. It will assess reliable identification methods for more accurate assessment of the abundance, distribution and toxicity determination of SMNP in the environment, giving the opportunity of new developments of cutting edge technologies. It will also develop practical computational tools that up-scaled should allow European agencies to map plastic-impacted hotspots. The project will have a multi-actor approach, creating scientific knowledge with a partnership of scientists, technicians, research organizations and enterprises, working together towards the recognition at different levels (society, industry, policy) of the main issues (sources, potential biodegradability, ecotoxicology, ingestion, environmental assessment) related to the presence of plastics in ecosystems." "Sustainable Policy Response to Urban Mobility Transition - SPROUT" "Imre Keseru" "Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, Mobilise, Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), Electromobility research centre, Business technology and Operations" "The goal of the SPROUT project is to generate new, city-led, and innovative policy responses to the challenges presented by the emergence of digitally enabled business models, by new mobility patterns, and by corresponding travel/transport behaviour and decisions. In order to do this, SPROUT is collaborating with 5 pilot cities (Tel Aviv, Valencia, Kalisz, Budapest and Padua) that have real-life policy challenges as a result of an urban mobility transition in both passenger mobility and freight, covering urban and peri-urban areas, different emerging mobility solutions, and context requirements. These pilot cities are the project’s 1st-layer cities, and the results of their pilots will be evaluated in the project’s nine 2nd-layer cities, who are the validation cities. This enables the project to adopt a true city-led approach. As part of the SPROUT project, MOBI lead work package 2, ‘Understanding transition in urban mobility’, which inventorized the drivers of urban mobility transition and applied them in the project’s 1st- and 2nd-layer cities, to present an overview of the current state of urban mobility and logistics. MOBI is also responsible for work package 3, which aims to develop city-specific do-nothing scenarios for the future of urban mobility in the pilot cities for a 2025/2030 timeline using the cross-impact balance analysis method. In WP4, MOBI will also be performing a Multi-Actor-Multi-Criteria (MAMCA) analysis to help develop city-led policy responses in each pilot city.SPROUT ensures an active participation of numerous representatives from authorities of small and medium-sized cities, and through the creation of an Open Innovation Community on Urban Mobility Policy."